The 12 Traditions

For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants, they do not govern.

The only requirement for membership in ACA is a desire to recover from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family.

Each group is autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or ACA as a whole. We cooperate with all other 12-Step programs.

Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the adult child who still suffers.

An ACA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the ACA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

Every ACA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

Adult Children of Alcoholics should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

ACA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

Adult Children of Alcoholics has no opinion on outside issues; hence the ACA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, T.V. and films.

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

The Serenity Prayer

God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can and the wisdom to know the difference.
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